How to Make Vampires in Age of Wonders 4
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Age of Wonders 4 has just launched and you might be wondering: How do I make Vampires? Well in this video, I'll give you a quick breakdown of the starting faction and tomes I chose to make Vampires in AoW4
0:00 Intro & Summary
1:11 Creating Vampires
7:40 Tome Choices & Synergies
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Hoping for more of a set Vampirism trait in the future. Perhaps the ability to have your leader be a vampire with the rest of your faction being Thralls or something of the sort. Do you want a set Vampire faciton, or does this work for you!?
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Can you create a race of strong mages that don't use summoning? That is, the whole army should be made up of combat mages of different elemental powers. You can use spells on the battlefield (and even really need to), you can use spells on the strategy map, but your army should consist of mage heroes and mage infantrymen.
@@Search_In_Google very possible. You can take the elemental and astral tomes to have a strong and diverse roster of battlemages. If you forgo summons, consider getting a cheap pikeman screen, the Mystic culture seems ok to me with a cheap tier 1 pike.
as AoW leans heavily into personal headcannon, as much as builds, i think Vampires should be a legit option. If nothing else, mods may take care of that, but an officially done option would be supreme. Glory to the Midnight Aristocracy
There is a trait, but needs to be unlocked in Partheon - Mana Addicts. Whenever you cast in combat - everyone gets life steal
YES. JUST YES.
I think it could be great series of "How to make a faction" from Age of Wonders.
Like how to make Ice Thralls, Forest druid tribe or something.
How to make Sauron or the Witch King
so far iv done ice vampires and daemonic orcs there is alot of choice so definitely could be series material
@@lordvalinar774 i made someone who looked like the witch king using necromancy and summoning so he was basically a lovecraftian nazgul the options are endless
Absolutely would love to see this! Millions of fantasy factions/races to choose from!
Yes
If you are familiar with Vampire: The Masquerade there are some great alternative vampire types to emulate, from Tremere to Nosferatu to Gangrel. Can't wait to try some.
I am!! i was going to look at doing some of those as well :)
I personally am trying to recreate the Tzimisce in my game.
@@Machiovel I think Warbreed would be a really good representation of a Vozd or Szlachta
If he comes back with another video and has figured out how to make a zombie race, i will be addicted.
This is sort of the same. But you'd use overwhelm tactic, tome of the Horde, and focus on making tier 1 units god :)
One of the base game characters already has that to an extent.
There's a mid-tier tome you can unlock pretty quickly that zombifies your entire population, granting them undeath and all that comes with it. If you wanna play the lich king you absolutely can.
I think that total war warhammer can take some inspirations from this game
Warhammer is based on existing lore so it’s a lot harder to implement such wild customisation
@@TheAnimefoolI would enjoy a system in TWWH3 where you get to explore different customization by over give moulding your faction rather than customization at the start. I'm thinking stuff like choosing whether Tyrion goes buck wild with his curse OR chooses to be a unifier... but much more impactful and maybe faction wide. Choices you make within the playthrough that add more flavor and feel real.
I honestly just play it as it is 40k...orcs,skaven,inquisition etc etc
Here is to hoping they add vampirespawn as a transformation in the future!
I really hope they add an actual vampire race and they have blood magic etc and werewolves too
Thanks Sparty. If I get into this game I will definitely follow this guide to create a von Carstein faction. As always a great boon to gamers.
This game has a lot of roleplaying potential. I started my first faction based on one of my D&D setting empires who is ruled by an ancient red dragon in human guise. She considers her empire as her hoard and will protect it and fight to expand it. Since the empire is heavily magic focused, I did a lot of traits and affinities towards magic (specifically Arcane Focused (+15% magic damage), Dark (for the Cull the Weak), Gifted Casters and Runesmiths (for the cheaper enchantments for mass army enchanting). And I am LOVING this playthrough!
I also wanted to make a vampire faction though and hence why I'm here xD
Please keep making videos on this game. They're so hype!
Thank you for sharing man great custom Vampire faction you created :)
I played once as necromancer. After playing a little my focus changed from necromancy to Chaos tomes.
Chaos is I think the most op affinity in the game. You can basically summon your ruler to every battle, what is a game changer. Your income increase per war, and the units chaos unlocks are op, especially with enchantments and race transformations.
Starting as necromancer also help saving some mana, because you can use spells that consume souls
nature?
Would love to see those Elder Scrolls faction ideas you have!! This video was really fun too :)
Great video! I did Vlad too!
I did more of Dark/Materium build. He's known for that amazing mechanical castle so although i did make him Dark culture i took some materium tomes to create metal golems and gargoyles which i believe are minions he's known for aside the undead. I also went with the arctic adaptation to represent how he hopes to shroud the world in night and make it all dark and spoopy.
Chose not to go with the Wightborne in the end and just used Cull the Weak and Cannibalism for all the lovely blood drinking. Vlad is too pretty to become a skelly.
Love the work, thanks
Awesome stuff !!
0:32 right before the transformation these dudes look like chaos warriors from warhammer I fuckin love it.
A note - Regeneration (from Dark) and the other ability you pointed out grant Temporary HP... meaning they disappear at the end of battle. Fast Recuperation restores actual HP. You're probably aware, but just wanted to clarify that there is a difference. The first lets you survive battle longer, the latter lets you survive the world map longer lol (but I admire and like your choices too 👍)
Absolutely! surviving the battle is definitely the winner here because then you use Restore Undead to heal on the world map :D
@@italianspartacus Absolutely! Shadow affinity seems really scary strong, but I guess the same thing could be said for any of them when you're up to those 4th and 5th tiers... lol So many amazing builds possible with this game and I'm so happy about it
Yeah I love that not one tome truly outshines the rest!
@@italianspartacus Man now look what you've done... now I want a vampire LP from you! *pounds on table* We needs it! We demands it! :P
@@italianspartacus that's not true. the nature tomes are by far the best overall imo
My first attempt ended up being the Chaos Dwarves from warhammer - having a blast.
After listening to this I am actually considering making my own vampires
Necro druid actually sounds pretty cool and seems pretty doable. The Tome of Cycles stuff would play with necromancy very well. The Druid of Cycles has some real nice flavor to it. I just recently got to tier 3 tomes with my high elf druid run and it's been great.
More thematic builds like this would be great!!
I just put up my Sauron one! :)
Vampires is something I wish to eventually create, my first Faction must be Warlord Apollyon the Destroyer and her Blackstone Legion. She will be the first to ascend to the pantheon "Apollyon's Wolves". The 2nd Faction will most likely be Arthas Menethil as the Lich King :P
Lmao. The For Honor gamer
Can you create a race of strong mages that don't use summoning? That is, the whole army should be made up of combat mages of different elemental powers. You can use spells on the battlefield (and even really need to), you can use spells on the strategy map, but your army should consist of mage heroes and mage infantrymen.
Absolutely!! Go mystic and focus on astral magic. One thing to note though is that tomes have summons as a means of expanding your existing units, so you'll be stuck with getting units from ancient wonders or vassals if you don't want to summon them
Every race has support mages and stronger battle mages.
You don't "have" to do anything.
You get 3 choices per research offer, similar to stellaris, and you can go for a book, a set of techs, that includes golem and just don't pick them.
Powerful Evokers would be a good pickup. Extra battle mage or support unit, the +1 rank to battle mages, extra Casting Points from battle mage units..
Who knew I was making vampire toads in my first game.
Spellforce winter elves would be really cool to see too, thanks for the video!
Oooooh, thanks for reminding me about that! Need to make my Winterqueen asap, so she can sing for her WInterdragon! Not sure If I should go ice tomes plus nature, or Ice tomes plus astral for the winter elves tho...
Wow. I didn't expected somebody here to be also spellforce veteran
@@Skull.man00 I still have the original box and discs for Order of Dawn, Breath of winter, and Shadow of the Phoenix ^^
@@punthebun Heh. I had that once while I was still a kid. Pretty cool stuff. Also played spellforce 2, but not demons of the past.
Btw. Rohen was based on real person
This is cool. I ended up creating the Shadowmoon clan. Orcs, spirits, and a lotta skelly boys.
Wish vamps were actually a faction. I might follow this tutorial.
nice.. now im off to make some baldy armies :D
Really struggling with what I want to play first, I'm kind of torn between doing an Isengard style faction or a sort of "Necro-Druid" empire.
Planning to go for Necro-Druids myself too
awesome vid. Btw 8:55 i dont get the option for a tick to not have my Ruler change race
You could allso go for tome of the root, witch have blight damage to melee and range, instead of pyromancy.
Consider me sold on this :D
i hope a more direct vamoire tome comes out, or atleast a mod. i also hope to be given the option to turn off a race tranformation visuals.
I love this game, just got a magic victory
Can you make a text that I can copy for notes. A guide for what to do as a sort of leveling guide just based on what YOU did.
Can u have multiple race transformations? Or can u only keep 1
Could you make the Numenoreans from LOTR? I’m thinking a high born culture with either chosen uniters or imperialists, depending on if you wanted to make them as the Numenoreans when they were elf friends and a force for good, or as the conquerors and tyrants they would eventually turn into. Not sure what affinity would work for them tho, as I haven’t played the game yet.
You mean the RoP tv show? With the asian, latin american and african Numenors?
@@vaettra1589 Im talking about the Silmarillion here. The actual Numenoreans.
@@nerdlydelicious1876 If you're talking about the 'Real' Numenoreans from Tolkien (not the fake ones from the RoP debacle), then first and foremost you'd have to set their Physique, Legs, and Arms to max since I believe the Numenoreans were like 7+ feet tall. As for Culture, definitely High Culture I'd say, since that culture can work fine both as a Good faction or a Neutral or Evil one since the High faction gets bonuses no matter what.
As for Racial Traits, for Body it's pretty obvious to give them Strong since they were very much a warrior race, and Ferocious maybe for the Mind trait? That one I'm a bit more iffy on since I think a number of traits would work.
I actually just won my first playthrough with the Necromancer esque route. Tons in Necromancy with some dabbling in Mystic for some powerhouse mages. Bone Dragons and enemy factions were near pathetic xD.
I'm enjoying AoW4 a lot so far, but I'm really stuck by how different it is from 3. It's basically a whole new game. 3 is a bit more strict with how you create factions, but I do like the structure that provided. I can see myself going back to it, not because I think its better than 4 but because it's just a whole other game.
100% doing something similair after iv finished my practice realm run maybe a dark elf leading rats though 🤔
Following this guide after 15 or so turns I am seeing domain morale low due to farms?!
It seems that the more farms I build the lower my domain moral gets!
This is the 1st time I have seen this.
Any ideas? I must be missing something.
Thanks!
Horde is a really fun one for vampires, you get alot of buffs to help you endless horde of weak zombie's take down higher tier units
I thought this was going to be a medieval planet fall clone. I was worse than right, I was wrong. It is great
I’m pretty sure planetfall was at least partially a testing ground for some things on age of wonders 4. Like unit customization and magic being both your “class” and “tech” were things planetfall flirted with that 4 also went with, but changed up significantly.
for best warbreed look go
Orc - barbarian +
animal kinship
revelers heart
super growth
vessel of chaos
demonkin
Classic Mordor faction for me using fear domination and thraldom to conquer the realm All shall fear me and despair!
Ha.
We literally did the same thing.
First faction I made were vampire. Similar
Same form, same culture, same society traits, same tome. Very sad no vampiric transformation.
They should allow to customize undead unit outlook: just bones or a pale human like Forsaken race in Warcraft
Nice
It would be cool if it would be allowed to disable visual effect when casting transformations.
I'm sure people will eventually make a mod for that.
This game looks really fun.
im make classique gothic vampires.... but they dwarfs.... and also they have guns..... and they actually good guys, yeah they pretty op
This is so cool! But when I try to creat my ruler I can't make them a diferent race. And I can't choose witch king as my ruler, only champion. Is there something I'm missing?
If you are playing the practice realm scenario (which is tutorial in a sense), you can only pick champion as your ruler.
If anyone is somewhat familiar with Magic the Gathering, especially the Guilds of Ravnica story, then the Orzhov guild is pretty easy to replicate in AoW4... A religion that worships nothing, simply for the sake of worship itself, and uses necromancy to collect tithes forever... tome focus is mostly the same as in the video, but instead of chaos tomes, you go for order tomes. Tome of Zeal, tome of the Inquisition if you want a more heavy hitters style faction, or the 2 tomes that give faithful trait to all units if you want swarms of low-cost units to absolutely drown your enemies under (and unlike tome of horde, you're not limited to tier 1 units :3 )
Is it possible to make an rece with absurd mobility to hit, avoid, run and abuse of flanking?
Yup!! There's a trait that helps that and I think it's in chaos that has flanking. I can't recall! I'll have to take a look
This is my first run tomes lol, only difference is I took Cryomancy instead
Can we watch you playing this race post livestream?
Low key I want to make Angelic Vampires or Holy Vampires it sounds so cursed
Well now I do too. SHIT!!! Hahahaha this game is so addicting to just make tons of factions!
Feel free.
Demonic dwarves.
Angelic skaven.
Undead dwarfs.
Human nature druids.
Violent industrial elves.
Do whatever, it's fun, I'm genuinely mad I'm at work and only had time for 1 game after it came out.
Fast heavy hitting undead with life drain, regeneration, poison and weaken ?! Where can I sign up and offer my soul to the dark lord ?
I don't spawn with a mount even though it says you get a heroes mount
With this and the penguin mod.. i can finally have SARDINES
Wait that strengthend buff is permanent? 😮
Hehe I wanted to be different. I went vampire orcs…which if you think about it….is quite tarrying
Would nightmares be a good body trait?
I find nightmares to be a little underwhelming but you cna lean into the morale penalties with the tome of revelry and tome of dread something in souls!!
Can you do supergrowth and the wightborn or just one i wonder?
Both because supergrowth is a minor mwhahaha
If I recall correctly, supergrowth is minor transformation, and those stack with major transformations. You can have as many minor transformations as you want, but only one major transformation.
how is there no color wheel
The problem with going undead/dark is you have to rush to wightborne to take off, which means you are exclusively picking shadow tomes. That means you don't have other affinities and you are fairly behind in empire tree unlocks. Other affinites have great stuff for your economy, free city diplomacy and other crucial stuff. You either have to make great use of your excess imperium or you are left behind in empire development. One saving grace is that shadow tree and dark culture generally has great knowledge income so you will unlock tomes faster and might be able to catch up, but knowledge also doesn't do anything for your economy and expansion.
Im having a big problem getting enough souls. Did you run into that issue?
Yeah you need to really cast souobound on the enemy armies before attacking them and get as many soul wells up as you can!
The return of Vlad Von Carstein!
I feel like tome of souls is so mid that i'll just be an elemental vampire to start and move into soul economy on tome 3
Not sure about tome of pyromancy Vampires don't like fire, nor are they known for ranged weapons.
Let me guess cannibals and shadow walkers?
vamps are usually cold anyways no fire with me
You can use more then 1 race change.
Not major ;)
Seems odd that no blood tomes
I wish expansions will add ton of rp elements
first dlc will add new ruler type, a draconian transformation which makes your race scaly, new lizard form and new tomes.
Great video, but I think red and green works better for vampires as Arachnne is almost one and she has those colors.
diplomatic, necromancer high (lich) orcs, because why not?
Remember vampires as a unit from age of wonders 2 with their seduce
A shame about the forced visual transformation when turning into wights. The dark sexy looks is like 50% of why I'd want to play vampires, so that's a deal breaker for me.
Same goes for 'Gaea's Chosen' - I want to play beautiful Wood Elves, not Huorns.
I love controlling undead empires. But that look after you change the race to undead is just terrible
I spent first 4 hours making warcraft factions. Made about 15
I wanted to do a similar thing aswell, but then I realized there are more traits and cosmetic options locked in pantheon system. So I started straight away with the campaign.
@@ddenozor you will unlock it pretty quickly. Yoy can also 1v1 ai and vassalize to them instantly and it will give 1 point as well.
"strong is a strong one" lol :)
I really wish that this game come for gamepass
Full shadow all day
Bro, just take the "mana dependence" faction feature. You can take another big transformation. And in my opinion, necromancy is still very unbalanced, souls are difficult to farm even in the late game, and 1-2 reapers eat almost the entire incom
Poor mage units, I think their models are broken a little when changed to undead? Like it looks extremly goofy that there is a skull and that high scarf thing.
The only thing I dislike about Wightborn is how f-ed your people and ruler look. :D
Aesthetics are really important for me, roleplay-wise and just because it feels cool but so many transformations make you just absolutely hideous. Spawnkin for example as well.
I kind of wish there was an option to gain the mechanical benefit but exclude the visual changes to some extent.
I feel like 6 units is just way too small. If it was 6 units and a hero that would be better imo
Same. The unit diversity is much more varied now and 6 unit limit is too restricting. But I don't think they will change it anytime soon.
While writing that, I realized they mention big war machines coming up in the 2nd DLC (which is more like an expansion rather than dlc). Maybe those will be things you can attach to your armies as a 7th unit?
Ah yes a 4x game, I'm going to create a massive army and kill all...soon as I build this granary..and fishery, and wharf and no I'm not going to kill the fish guy, and oh we're friends now? Oh everyones my friend? I'm the good guy?!?!?! Ok I guess I'm turtling for a tech/diplo victory as always I guess.
Hahaha pretty much how most Civ games go. You just roll with what the world gives you.
These are hungry Liches, not Vampires 😂
1. Vampires don't eat dead flesh, they drink fresh blood.
2. They don't look like skeletons.
Combination of necromancy (without undead transformation) and some nature books will let you focus on life draining.
"Wightborn is gonna make them look less vampiric" - Just call them 'Nosferatu', problem solved!
Thanks for the spoiler warning.
Really a shame wightborn make your entire race and characters ... not vampire like. Even skeletons are better, Hope there is a mod to fix that soon
Pyromancy makes no sense to pick as vampires...
Then go cryomancy :) the choice is yours!!
So you just created common undead units and named them vampires? It's a joke?